Why Many Festivals are Available in Tibet

It seems that one or more festival is available in Tibet region each month. Most of our guests are interested in taking part in Tibet festival ceremonies during Tibet tour, as all the traditional activities are mysterious and amazing. The famous Tibet festivals are Wangkor Festival, Tibetan New Year, Horse Racing Festival, Shoton Festival, Saga Dawa Festival, Illumination Festival, Butter Sculpture Festival, Driving-off Devil Festival and Bathing Festival, etc.

Why there are so many festivals available in Tibet region? Why Tibetan people are enthusiastic to show their performance during festival? There are mainly 4 reasons listed as following.

Why Many Festivals are Available in Tibet – Nature

Highly praised as the "snow holy land", Tibet region stands at the highest location of the world. As the extreme harsh nature was continuously threatening people's life, ancient Tibetans started to pray the deity. The primitive worship was finally became the traditional Tibetan festivals. Nowadays, some of the traditional Tibetan festivals such as the worship to the mountain deity, the earth deity, the deity master the good harvest, and the hunter deity, etc are succeeded successfully.

Why Many Festivals are Available in Tibet – Population

Due to the complicated and harsh natural environment, the population was too hard to be improved in Tibet region. Therefore Tibetan people were very enthusiastic to communicate with others in this vast wild area. People would have a chance to get together singing and dancing during the festivals and famous activities. In the mean time, other performances were also performed. That is why ancient Tibetan people created so many festivals.

Why Many Festivals are Available in Tibet – Life Style

The third factor of why there are so many festivals in Tibet region is Tibetan's life style. Different festivals were characteristic of the features of different area. For example, in the pasturing area, the festivals were the representative of the features of this region such as horse racing festival, and mowing festival. In farming area, it features Wangkor Festival (one of the busiest festivals celebrated for the agricultural harvest in Tibet plateau). The festivals are distinctive according to the life style of one region. Meanwhile, Tibet festivals are the good time and the best opportunity for Tibetans to do business each other in a year.

Why Many Festivals are Available in Tibet – Religion

As a matter of fact, after the introduction of Buddhism into Tibet region, Tibet Buddhism culture has been quickly spread and developed because of the different festivals. When large numbers of people gathered together during the festivals, the religions were easily spread and communicated each other. Local people got a chance to understand the different religions in Tibet.

Why Many Festivals are Available in Tibet – Significance

Tibetan people are like to communicate gathering together during the festivals. The festival is the good way to show their love to families and friends, their respect to the deities and religions, and their thanks to the wild nature. The national cohesion and appetency will be solidified strongly by the festivals. Meanwhile, Tibet festivals are also a good chance for us to understand this nation well.